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EDITORS’ NOTES

Ditching the dubstep and EDM influences of 2012’s The 2nd Law in favour of old-fashioned rock ballistics, Muse’s seventh album is a wide-angle, bold-faced attack on the dehumanising effects of modern war. Produced by Mutt Lange (famous in part for the tank-like sound of AC/DC and Def Leppard in their prime), Drones mashes together the high drama of late-'90s Radiohead (“Psycho”) with the pyrotechnics of Van Halen (“Reapers”) and the grand sweep of both U2 and Pink Floyd—bands who have always chosen to go big or go home.

EDITORS’ NOTES

Ditching the dubstep and EDM influences of 2012’s The 2nd Law in favour of old-fashioned rock ballistics, Muse’s seventh album is a wide-angle, bold-faced attack on the dehumanising effects of modern war. Produced by Mutt Lange (famous in part for the tank-like sound of AC/DC and Def Leppard in their prime), Drones mashes together the high drama of late-'90s Radiohead (“Psycho”) with the pyrotechnics of Van Halen (“Reapers”) and the grand sweep of both U2 and Pink Floyd—bands who have always chosen to go big or go home.